I haven’t found the homelessness issue in Vancouver to be all black-and-white. In fact, I’m a bit reluctant to weigh in on tomorrow’s election, because I know that there are many sides to every story—and my knowledge on this one, or on our civic parties, is certainly not complete.
But let me throw caution [...]
As there are a lot sciencey people in this community, I thought I would ask for some thoughts on the Large Hadron Collider, which will be launched tomorrow from “deep underground the Swiss-French border.”
The goal of the project, headed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), is evidently to re-create conditions that may [...]
A Darfur Activist in China
I’ve decided to post this email from Josh Scheinert, former Advocacy Director with STAND Canada. Thanks to him for permission. –JS
Sent Sat, May 3, 2008 at 4:35 AM
What a day. Yesterday was the Olympic Torch relay in Hong Kong. And despite waking up to rain, I made it out, “STAND for Darfur” [...]
Hey people–here’s a great event to come out to tomorrow. Just come out and chillax and show your solidarity for Sudan (the people, not the gov’t).
http://skiandbikefordarfur.blogspot.com/2008/04/about-rally.html
Bill C-484
As you probably well know, this is a bill that has been stirring up controversy in some quarters of late. An article from today’s Montreal Gazette gives a strong response to its dissenters, imo. It is not written in the gentlest of prose, but from my point of view an absolutely worthy read. [...]
[I thought I would take the liberty of re-posting this press-release on behalf of the groups listed below, just FYI. Definitely holds relevance for Terry. -JS]
April 12, 2008
For Immediate Release
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
VANCOUVER CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS TO LAUNCH UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COMPLAINT
AGAINST CANADA ON THE RIGHT [...]
Here’s what the ol’ facebook is telling me:
Date: Friday, April 4, 2008
Place: The Pit Pub @ UBC
Time: 7-10pm
One is inevitably followed by the other, so you might as well get prizes for it!
Come out to The Pit Pub this Friday night! Amnesty International UBC is hosting an event [...]
No, you didn’t fall asleep in March to awake in early November. It’s March 14, and another story is unfolding in the United States after New York Governor Eliot Spitzer announced his sudden departure from office.
In case you’ve been dozing, here’s what happened: the Governor was known as a crusading, do-gooder knight in shining [...]
On Wednesday, the BC budget was duly noted by some of the usual talking heads. Representatives from a diverse array of civil society groups all chimed in on it in Wednesday’s Vancouver Metro (p. 4). Here are my thoughts on two of them:
Jim Sinclair of the BC Federation of Labour mentioned homelessness, stating [...]
Happy New Year everyone!
And now a post totally unrelated to new year festivities: I’ve been happily looking through crooksandliars.com, and came across this old gem of a clip from Jon Stewart. An incredibly clever four minutes of history.
Here’s a beautiful essay, as food for thought. Food that seems to be of a nutritious nature.
This is quite an evocative video. It contains a lot of powerful historical footage in a few short minutes, even somehow managing to make the Y2K celebrations seem like a distant, nostalgic memory.
(I think I might be behind the times for posting this now. But Terry readers don’t ever watch MuchMusic anyway, [...]
While responding to Sarah Burch’s post about Canada in Bali, I was reminded of some of the doubts that have been cast on climate science—some evident quackery, and others… possibly not.I have spent hours lately trying to wrap my mind around what is a great deal of back-and-forth between the “consensus” position on climate [...]
Workers of the World Relax: The Simple Economics of Less Industrial Work
Conrad Schmidt, 2006
Book Review
We are killing ourselves to make useless crap. Crap, in its various forms–by which I primarily mean mass-produced consumer goods–takes up resources and energy and redirects it all, essentially, to a pile in some obscure corner of your house. There it collects dust and periodic interest for about [...]
I’ve just discovered several intriguing pieces on the garbage problem at thetyee.ca. The first suggests that we actually don’t need to be a society that produces garbage. Then, scroll to the bottom of that piece for a description of Earth’s Eighth Continent (yes, it is what you think, sadly), or a piece on made-to-break technology. [...]
“Genocide Oil? Darfur and Oil Exploitation in Sudan”
a lecture by Philippe Le BillonThurs, Nov. 22 at 12pmNORM THEATRE, S.U.B.Free! Refreshments provided!
This lecture looks back at the impact of oil exploitationon war and genocide in the Sudan. It first looks atthe role played by oil in the initiation ofhostilities [...]
I’ve been wondering about this quite a bit lately, but I haven’t really had time to look into it: the last poll I saw put Hillary Clinton at 50% of the Democratic vote, with Obama at a mere 22%! And like I said, I only have impressions to go on, but it seems to me [...]
Another piece from Darfur, Sudan: journalist Alfred de Montesquieu writes of the forced removal of “ethnic African refugees” from Otash camp, near Nyala, South Darfur. Here’s an excerpt:
Some human rights groups say the government is racing to empty camps before the joint U.N.-African Union force arrives in Darfur to replace a smaller, poorly equipped [...]
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“Coddling” the criminal–the National Post’s take on homelessness
It appears that the Post has opted not to print my response to a disturbing recent editorial of theirs that nearly throws homeless people into the same category as murderers. But of course, I’d love to see it posted somewhere. Here it is:
To the Editor:
Tuesday’s lead editorial ["Coddling the criminal," October 21] [...]